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The recent bomb blasts at three locations in Mumbai that killed about 20 people and injured about 130 people have brought into focus not only the vulnerability of big Indian cities, but also the rise of a particular variety of homegrown extremist group called Indian Mujahideen. The attacks also pricked the claims of authorities that after the Mumbai attack of 2008, Indian security and intelligence agencies have been successful enough to foil terrorist plans and attacks.

“Terrorism is not a necessary effect of religious tendencies, whether fundamentalist or secular. Rather terrorism is born of a political encounter. When it harnesses one or another aspect of tradition or culture, terrorism needs to be understood as a modern political movement at the service of a modern power. As such, the genesis of the form of political terrorism responsible for the tragedy of 9/11 can be traced to the late Cold War.”—Mahmood Mamdani (photo), Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, pp. 61-62.

It will be naive to believe that the menace of terrorism will wither away with the death of Osama bin Laden in the morning hours of 2nd May 2011. At present juncture it will be difficult to predict what exact course the international terror menace will take in the era after Osama bin Laden, the most inspirational figure among the terrorists worldwide. In fact, the value of Osama was not in his person himself, but rather in the inspiration he was evoking among the terrorists worldwide...

The killing of Maulana Showkat Ahmed Shah on 8 April 2011 besides silencing a voice of moderation in Kashmir, also gave rise to the prospects of hardening of the radical agenda towards promoting violent means for conflict resolution in Kashmir. Within a week of his death, the radical pronouncements have been reinforced, with the radical leaders demanding for plebiscite (dormant few months back), inviting outside powers like the UK to intervene in the conflict...

One day after the recognition by Italian Government of the Transitional National Council (TNC), and about three weeks after the UN resolution we may give one thing for granted: the Libyan-Italian relations are unlikely to be as before and this not only in political but also economic terms. In the Libyan case the political sphere has a clear primacy on economic and thus the political factor - namely the role and responsibility of Italy in the intervention following the UN resolution 1973 ...